Essays about: "conservation prioritization"
Found 4 essays containing the words conservation prioritization.
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1. Sustainable Use: A Contentious Promise - A Case Study on International Funding of Consumptive Sustainable Wildlife Use in South Africa's Biodiversity Economy
University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionenAbstract : In South Africa, sustainable use of wildlife is widely recognized as providing economic incentives and actively engaging rural communities in conservation management. Aiming to combat rampant poverty and wildlife crime in communities around protected areas (PAs), the country’s biodiversity economy envisions to scale (non-)consumptive activities in the pursuit of creating economically and environmentally viable wildlife businesses. READ MORE
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2. The Po Delta Biosphere Reserve: Management challenges and priorities deriving from anthropogenic pressure and sea level rise
University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för naturgeografi och ekosystemvetenskapAbstract : The Po Delta Biosphere Reserve is located in Northern Italy and has attained recognition by UNESCO in 2015 due to its unique natural and cultural value. The reserve covers an area of approximately 140 000 hectares, supporting a human population of 118 000, as well as a complex mosaic of ecosystems, which are found in this transitional waters landscape. READ MORE
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3. Situating adscriptions of value on Nature's Contributions to People : The case of traditional farmers in San Pedro, Paraguay.
University essay from Stockholms universitet/Kulturgeografiska institutionenAbstract : This thesis focus on the unidimensional adscriptions of value behind industrial soybeans production in Paraguay. The thesis aims to present non-economic Nature’s Contributions to traditional farmers’ quality of life, the role of farmers’ traditional knowledge to display these contributions and the efficiency of such knowledge regarding high productive demands. READ MORE
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4. Evaluating the biodiversity hotspots approach as a tool for global conservation planning
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EcologyAbstract : Given the alarming loss of biodiversity and considering that the location and threats to this biodiversity are distributed unevenly across the globe, a systematic strategy of international conservation planning must complement national conservation actions by directing inadequate flexible funding to places where the greatest biological distinctiveness coincides with the greatest threat, thus safeguarding the protection of the most species for the money invested. One such approach is Conservation Internationalʼs Biodiversity Hotspots, regions where extraordinary biological diversity coincides with exceptional threat. READ MORE
